2736. 🇨🇦 Canada Commemorates Preserver Of Inuit Heritage.

 

New issues -

🇨🇦 Canada Post -

20 June 2025 - Leaders of Indigenous Communities, Julia Haogak Ogina - 1 self-adhesive stamp issued in booklets of 6. Designed by Andrew Perro from a photograph by Matisse Harvey, Archives Radio Canada and lithographed by Lowe Martin. Part of an issue of 3 different stamps. Ogina is recognised for her attempts to preserve Inuit cultural heritage including the drum dance. Rating:- *****.

🇸🇬 Singapore Post -

?2024 - ‘Tracked post box prepaid label’, parcel post costing S$40  (equivalent to £23) for a pack and S$2.80 for 1 stamp (thanks to PE PHIL for correcting me on an error regarding the price). This item seems to fulfill all the criteria needed to be defined as a (parcel) postage stamp (definition of a postage stamp - “a small adhesive label issued by postal authorities that an affixed to an envelope, postcard or package as evidence that postage has been paid”). Rating:- ****.

🇧🇹 Bhutan Post -

4 June 2025 - Zambala, Buddhist Goddess of Wealth - 2 miniature sheets, one containing 4 different stamps and the other a single stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- *****.

2519. 🇨🇦 Canada Commemorates Métis Artist.

 

New issues -

🇨🇦 Canada Post -

21 June 2024 - Indigenous leaders, Christi Belcourt, Métis artist and environmentalist - 1 self-adhesive stamp issued in booklets of 6 and 1 gummed miniature sheet containing 1 each of the 3 2024 Indigenous leaders stamps. Designed by Andrew Perro from an illustration by Christi Belcourt. Lithographed by Colour Innovations. Rating:- *****.

🇲🇲 Myanmar Post -

20 June 2024 - Endemic butterflies of Myanmar (5th issue), the Common Rose - 1 stamp. Designed by Cho San Lin and lithographed by Security Printing Works and perforated 14. Rating:- *****.

 

🇱🇹 Stamperija (Private company located in Lithuania selling and producing philatelic products stated to be under contract with certain African postal authorities or governments).

2024 - “The first Mickey Mouse cartoon Steamboat Willie enters public domain” (in other words, Stamperija seizes the first moment possible to produce and sell items depicting Disney characters without having to pay a licence fee). While not usually publicising the range of exploitative products emanating from the notorious Stamperija, these items are noted here to illustrate just how those who run Stamperija have an eye to the main chance and will exploit every single opportunity that arises to screw money out of hapless stamp collectors. As usual, caveat emptor.  Rating:- 0.

Apart from the names of the two Commonwealth countries illustrated below, products on the same subject have been put on the market with the names of Djibouti, Liberia, Central African Republic, Guinea Bissau and Guinea printed on them. All issued in perforated and imperforate versions.

🇸🇱 Items with the name Sierra Leone printed on them -

🇹🇬 Items with the name Togo printed on them -